[CentOS] What's the Linux equivelant of an exe file?
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feizhou at graffiti.netThu Aug 4 15:05:33 UTC 2005
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Dave Gutteridge wrote: > > This is one of those questions that seems to be soo obvious to people > that no one feels the need to have an explanation anywhere. I've been > looking around the net for ages, and I can't figure out what, on Linux, > is actually a program. file '/path/to/file' will tell you. But you still need to give execute permissions. > > I've downloaded OpenOffice 1.9 Beta, and would like to run it. I go to > the /opt/openoffice.org1.9.122/program/ directory and... then what? What > do I run to start the thing? I've hunted around with ls, and I thought > bin files were the thing, but they don't seem to run. use ls -l Files with a 'x' in the permissions are executable. oowrite or something like that for word processing.
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